The Michael Berry Joe

It was an absolute honor to get to meet one of my heroes Antonin Scalia justice Antonin Scalia the greatest Supreme Court justice of my lifetime

It was in 1995 Court Justice Scalia of my lifetime.

It was in 1995 and I was staying at the University Club and Justice Scalia and Justice

Thomas were members at the University Club.

I was sponsored by a fellow named Richard Minniter, who went on to be an editor at the Wall Street Journal.

He headed a British paper, headed a European paper, he's written multiple books,

he's a conservative writer, thinker, talker, and I had a friend in law school named Angela Holzi, now Angela Wallet.

She married a prominent doctor who is very, very well regarded at Johns Hopkins hospitals and Angela was a dear friend of

mine and my wife and she introduced me to Richard and I was clerking for a firm

in DC called Hyman Phelps and McNamara and I took up

residence at the University Club and was it ever an honor?

It was right next door to the Russian embassy and we later learned that the CIA was using

the University Club to spy on the Russian embassy but it was an all-male club

where senators and Supreme Court justices was It was very difficult to get in. Very

influential people, kind of a William F Buckley kind of people. And I met Justice

Scalia over dinner with a evening at a cigar dinner, took a picture with him and Clarence Thomas.

I'm in between the two of them and I asked him, because I'm not shy,

if I might be able to visit his Supreme Court chambers and he said I'd be honored.

And so he said why don't you come tomorrow at 4 o'clock?

And so this was in the evening.

I had to go to work and at the law firm and my wife was in town

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